destielfreaksandgeeks | Fic Rec Friday: Old Friends Senior Fic Sanctuary

For our first round of Friday fic recommendations, let's give some love to our elders - that is, old fics. Older fics are sometimes imported from other sites over to AO3, and don't always have the tags or traffic that net people's attention the way that newer fics do. People who are newer to the fandom might never discover these gems without a little help!

Your fic rec doesn't have to specifically focus on the Dean/Cas ship, but it does have to be published in 2015 or earlier.

Make sure to say a few words about why you love this fic, and provide a link where people can find it! In fact, feel free to recommend more than one!

(As an aside, I'm eventually planning to pull data from every Fic Rec Friday post into a compiled spreadsheet, as well as being available to find under the "Fic Rec Friday" tag so that our best-beloved fics on a variety of different tropes/topics can be easily saved and shared.)

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I first got into SPN around 2012 (PEAK SuperWhoLock era), and back then mostly found my fics through the HoodieTime LJ. There are some fics that are still around and have been crossposted to Ao3, that even when I was out of fandom, had been so profound and formative that I'd think about them randomly:

Jai Guru Deva Om by Shariot (2013): https://archiveofourown.org/works/955608/chapters/1869996
and
The Days and Nights Are Long by Sharlot (2015): https://archiveofourown.org/works/5394836

Both are Gen. Top is Stanford-era Dean who falls in with a cult, and bottom is S3 AU with Sam trying to save Dean.

-saudade (I cant find my old Dreamwidth login info and need to make a new acct at some point, but hi)

Fic Rec Friday: Old Friends Senior Fic Sanctuary

Fics I think about 10+ years later